pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I dunno if my comment was rockist but it wasn't meant to be. I like some pop music, but not the sort of pop music that gets Grammy's, usually. treeship got the gist of what I was writing: non-commercial music is precluded from even being considered, and thus, it is objectively true (IMHO) that commercial success is valued over artistic merit in such environments.

Ums OTM and the way he slyly upped the ante in his follow-up post shows real political acumen.

Brad's Anita Baker review is fantastic. The final image — Baker as "a magician pulling silk scarves from her mouth" — is one of the best things I've read all year. Great work, Brad!

That is a beautiful piece for a beautiful album

Beautiful

That's a magnificent piece.

Great stuff

No idea she was only 27, looked it up, same age as Prince, definitely didn't perceive them as being the same age as the time

thanks y'all it means a lot <3

I loved it.

No wonder you were quiet on the Rapture revive.

Good stuff, Brad, as always.

great review brad :)

It’s great to see These Are Not Fall Colors get the retrospective treatment—though not sure why Sherburne avoids mentioning the name of Jayne’s later/long-running project (Love As Laughter), even though it’s discussed.

I also would have maybe lost the six paragraphs about Olympia / K... this is one of my favorite albums, and even I found the piece hard to get through. The exhaustive Sunday review treatment—dutifully cataloging every tiny detail surrounding an album—can be exhausting. Some great writing when he’s actually talking about the music, though!

wow this is a bad review

On “Two Feet in Front,” a 1994 single for K’s International Pop Underground series, they approached their arrangements first like glassblowers, drawing out elegantly elongated tones, then blacksmiths, hammering bent chords till sparks flew.

These Are Not Fall Colors is not a manifesto but a personal statement, the sound of a fistful of wrinkled notebook pages covered in blurry blue ballpoint.

There’s no actual melody to speak of; bass, guitar, and drums merely tumble in rough concord, like a rockslide moving grudgingly uphill. Jayne is sing-shouting front and center, something about seriousness and serial killers, while in the background, another voice screams bloody murder.

Also he mentions LAL!

With his Love as Laughter project, Jayne’s tapes would occupy him, miraculously, for the next 26 years of his life.

They must have added that, I swear it wasn’t there y’day.

I believe it

They've definitely added that later, it wasn't formulated like that when I read the piece yesterday

I never knew Sam was Layne Staley's cousin!

I didn’t either!

On its 10th anniversary, Van Etten revisits the landmark that marked her arrival to the forefront of indie rock with a collection of covers, from Lucinda Williams to Fiona Apple, that offer proof of her music’s deep healing and complexity.

are we buying magic crystals or

get really weary of this thing where the tenth anniversary of every well reviewed indie rock album ever recorded is somehow a milestone

Whokill (stylized as w h o k i l l) is the second full-length release by Merrill Garbus' project Tune-Yards. It was released on 4AD Records on April 19, 2011.

How are you guys celebrating w h o k i l l day?

listening to dr. feelgood

they didnt even review the latest tune-yards record weirdly (it was great fwiw)

xpost down by the jetty goes hard

i remember being confused by the 10th anniversary reissue of The Moon and Antarctica, like really, we're doing this?

they didnt even review the latest tune-yards record weirdly (it was great fwiw)

― ufo, Monday, April 19, 2021 10:26 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

She should have released it on Griselda

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

"a decade after baby shark, what's changed?"

get really weary of this thing where the tenth anniversary of every well reviewed indie rock album ever recorded is somehow a milestone

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:42 (two hours ago) link

Because they're trying to drive sales

"a decade after baby shark, what's changed?"

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, April 19, 2021 8:17 AM

NOTHING I STILL CAN'T SLEEP OH GOD IT HAUNTS ME

If you were 18 when all those albums came out they do probably feel like milestones. Plus you're all, can you believe we're 28 now, when did we get so old??! and you want to canonize the stuff from high school.

We all did it, what's wrong with letting the kids do it too?

(granted, I think we waited until the 20 year anniversary)

they didnt even review the latest tune-yards record weirdly (it was great fwiw)

― ufo, poniedziałek, 19 kwietnia 2021 16:26 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Weird they totally skipped this one, given the amount of praise they gave the band in the early 2010s

it's not cool to like tuneyards right now

Imagine going on this site in 2011 and pointing out that Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato would one day have more hipster cachet that tUnE yArDs

poptimism: where did it all go wrong

i mean the demi lovato album is pretty good tho

I think a way old school former ilxor got the demi lovato hive sicced on him because he was lukewarm on it

yeah they made a fake tweet screenshot of him supposedly crowing about her heroin overdose (that, even in the fake, didn't refer to her) and paired it with other damning evidence like how he once saw Pussy Riot play at a festival instead of Lovato

screaming that they were going to "get him fired" from Rolling Stone for having written one 7/10 positive freelance review

jeez the fake o.d. tweet, fandom is so fucked up now

I've been seeing more and more buzz for Ethel Cain lately, so I was reading that profile. Not sure I'm sold on her music yet, but I'm intrigued by the general vibe and aesthetic, though I kept finding myself doubting that "Anhedonia" is her real last name and isn't just another layer to the character she's creating.

haha I read that yesterday and got intrigued then listened to it and was pretty let down

though I kept finding myself doubting that "Anhedonia" is her real last name and isn't just another layer to the character she's creating.

she's trans & has had a rocky relationship with her parents so i figured she probably just changed it for real

also, she's depressingly on dr. luke's actual label which feels like more of him trying to launder his reputation "look he's signing trans artists how progressive"

oh damn is she canceled already

no it's just depressing

she's trans & has had a rocky relationship with her parents so i figured she probably just changed it for real

That makes sense, it was just such an on the nose fictional name.

This was amusing!

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/best-and-worst-features-young-thug-slime-language-2/

I like Alphonse Pierre a lot

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How's Erykah Badu live?

prettttttttty gooooood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2-mrsXgMM